By The Numbers

Numbers don’t always tell the story, but they do provide a statistical look at who we are, what we do and what we value most. The numbers below are from Methodist Rehabilitation Center and its divisions. They represent this hospital’s 30-year commitment to bettering the lives of physically-challenged people.

1970
Year groundbreaking ceremonies were held for Methodist Rehabilitation Center

180
Number of spinal injury patients treated at Methodist Rehabilitation Center in 2006—far more than any other Mississippi hospital and more than the 14 largest Mississippi hospitals combined

$1,800,000
Amount of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System grant that funds brain injury research at Methodist

2003
Year researchers at Methodist Rehabilitation Center became the first in the world to link West Nile virus with a polio-like form of paralysis

99
Percentage of former patients who say, if needed, they would choose to return to Methodist Rehabilitation Center for treatment.

124
Number of beds at Methodist Rehabilitation Center

1,370
Number of miles amputee Brad Kennedy—a prosthetist at Methodist Orthotics and Prosthetics—biked across Europe

1975
Year Methodist Rehabilitation Center officially opened

170
Number of traumatic brain injury patients treated at Methodist Rehabilitation Center in 2006—49.4 percent of TBI patients treated in Mississippi last year

1981
Year a four-floor expansion of Methodist Rehabilitation Center occurred, increasing the hospital’s number of beds from 60 to 124

$14,500
Amount of money gift shop volunteers donated to the Wilson Research Foundation in 2006 to fund neuroscience research at the Center for Neuroscience and Neurological Recover at Methodist

2000
First year Methodist Rehabilitation Center was named one of America’s Best Hospitals by US News & World Report

24
Number of patients Methodist Rehabilitation Center took in from Gulfport Memorial Hospital, Forrest General Hospital and the University of Mississippi Medical Center following Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2005

1992
Year Methodist Rehabilitation Center’s East Campus officially opened in Flowood

617
Number of employees who work for Methodist Rehabilitation Center and its divisions

53
Percentage of inpatients at Methodist Rehabilitation Center who are male

1996
Year the two-story Atrium Mall at Methodist Rehabilitation Center opened

$9,000,000
Cost of building Methodist Specialty Care Center—the state’s first residential facility for the severely disabled

60
Number of beds at Methodist Specialty Care Center

$6.500,000
Amount of money in federal, state, foundation and industry funding that theCenter for Neuroscience and Neurological Recovery has received

140
Number of peer-reviewed research articles or book chapters written by neuroscience researchers at Methodist Rehabilitation Center

47
Percentage of inpatients at Methodist Rehabilitation Center who are female

264
Number of stroke patients treated at Methodist Rehabilitation Center in 2006—far more than at any other hospital in Mississippi

500
Number of physicians who have referred patients to Methodist Rehabilitation Center in the last three years

40,000
Number of patients treated at Methodist Outpatient Therapy Center, Methodist Orthotics and Prosthetics and the hospital’s outpatient clinics in the past year

16
Average number of days patients are hospitalized at Methodist Rehabilitation Center

76
Percentage of inpatients at Methodist Rehabilitation Center who return home

9
Number of physician-scientists who conduct neuroscience research at Methodist Rehabilitation Center

6
Number of physiatrists—physicians who specialize in physical and rehabilitation medicine—on staff at Methodist Rehabilitation Center

200
Number of physicians on staff representing 28 specialties

$58,982
A conservative estimate of the value of time—850 hours—physicians, administrators, psychologists and physician researchers spent volunteer for various organizations in 2007

1,015
Number of hours of instruction Methodist’s continuing education department provided to health care professionals during 2007